WARREN — Edwin Kalloch Boggs Jr. passed away peacefully April 26, 2014, at the Maine Veteran's Hospital in Augusta. He was born Feb. 7, 1920, in Portland, to Edwin Kalloch Boggs and Olive Leland Boggs.

He went to elementary school in South Portland and high school in Gorham, and attended Portland Junior College.

Edwin worked in Hartford, Conn., for his Uncle George Landers, who ran E.M. Lowe Theaters.

On Oct. 22, 1941, Edwin joined the U.S. Marine Corps and served during World War II with the 1st and 6th Divisions in the Pacific Theater at Guam, Guadacanal, and Kwajalein and Enewetok in the Marshall Islands, and was discharged Oct. 22, 1945.

He graduated from the University of Maine at Orono in 1949 with a Bachelor of Arts in business. He worked in Worcester, Mass., and was hired by the New England Board of Fire and Insurance Rating Association and soon after by the New Hampshire Board of Underwriters.

In June 1951 he was married to Mary Jane Richardson of Wolfeboro, N.H., and they lived in Concord and Chichester, N.H. They raised six children: Alison Martha was born in 1952, Christopher Edwin in 1953, Dean Frederick in 1955, Laurie Jane in 1957, Jeffrey Otis in 1960 and Eric Montgomery in 1964.

In 1955 the family moved to Rochester, N.H., then later to Milton, N.H., where Edwin went to work for the Grange Mutual Insurance Company as vice president, secretary and chief operating officer. He was also an agent for the Varney Insurance Agency in Rochester and traveled to New Hampshire and Maine.

He was a member of the New England Board of Underwriters and regularly spoke at the New Hampshire State Grange on fire and casualty insurance.

After he retired in 1986, he and Mary Jane moved to Warren to care for his parents at the family home.

While in New Hampshire he joined the Seacoast Detachment of Marines and after moving to Maine he helped start the Midcoast Detachment that meets in Rockland. He was the commandant of both. Also, he and another Midcoast marine started the State Department in Maine and he was the second commandant. Edwin and Fred Polka organized and led the Young Marine Program in Thomaston.

For many years, Edwin and the Midcoast Detachment organized an S.O.S. Breakfast for Active and Retired Marines, held at his home in Warren.

When the 911 system was put into Warren, Edwin walked, mapped and named some of the roads in Warren, numbering house lots at 10-foot intervals.

Edwin had an interest in the Warren Historical Society and served as president and was on the Board of Trustees. He worked with others painting, repairing, arranging displays, and with Richard Ferren, made possible a humidity and temperature controlled room installed on the second floor.

Edwin and his wife were presented the Good Citizen Award from the White Oak Grange and one year the Warren Town Report was dedicated to them for their volunteer work in the town.

Edwin's interests were family gatherings, skiing, picnics, swimming, playing golf, listening to the Great Bands, visiting with friends, the Marine Corps League, and reading about the Marines and World War II in the Pacific.

Edwin's sister, Mrs. Mary Jane McGuigan, lives in Vero Beach, Fla. His brother, Gilbert Anderson Boggs, lives in Tallahassee, Fla. Edwin's predeceased sister, Mrs. Virginia Donovan, formerly lived in Vero Beach, Fla.

Edwin is also survived by his wife, Mary Jane Boggs of Warren; his hildren, Alison and Randy Kassa of Warren, Christopher and Lisa Boggs of Ossipee, N.H., Dean Boggs of Strafford, N.H., Laurie Jane and Ernest Smallis of Temecula, Calif., Jeffrey Otis Boggs of Tamworth, N.H., and Eric and Amanda Boggs of Sanbornville, N.H.; 14 grandchildren; and 20 great-grandchildren

A service to celebrate Edwin's life will be held Sunday, May 4, at 2 p.m. at Hall Funeral Home, 949 Main St. in  Waldoboro. The Rev. Robin Honaker will officiate. Burial will follow in Sawyer Cemetery in Warren, with military honors.

Hall Funeral Home of Waldoboro is caring for the family.